Word: arabization
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...publication took the hint and, along with the Economist, sent Philby to the Middle East, where his father, St. John Philby, the famed Arab scholar, had spent years exploring the desert...
...that Buber has romanticized the Hasidic movement and overemphasized the importance of this unique sect for modern Judaism. And even among Jews who accept the principles of his "life of dialogue," some are shocked that onetime Zionist Buber has spent more than 40 years working for the improvement of Arab-Israel relations...
After a long investigation, Major Grimwood decided that the best place for a "world herd" of Arab-proof oryxes was not in Kenya, but in Phoenix, where the dry, hot climate resembles that of Arabia, and where there is the spacious and hospitable Maytag Zoo. The Arizona Air National Guard, happy to boost the home state, flew a C-97 cargo plane to pick up the oryxes, which had been shipped to New Jersey. The four consisted of two males and two females, Edith from Aden, and Caroline, contributed by the London Zoo. Another female, still unnamed, will arrive...
...U.A.R. and the Arab World," an international Seminar Forum, will be given on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Mounir Nassif, the Foreign News Editor of the Akhbar El Yom Publishing House, will moderate...
...other profession being so profoundly and articulately dissatisfied with their own work. Poet Marianne Moore laments that she "never knew anyone who had a passion for words who had as much difficulty in saying things as I do." Boris Pasternak (described as looking "at the same time like an Arab and his horse") believes it is "no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated." Venerable Ezra Pound, 77, "stuck" and unable to finish his epic Cantos, says, "The question is. am I dead?" Katherine Anne Porter gloomily concludes...